Berkeley activists protest for reproductive rights on Sproul Plaza

Demonstrators from the Bay Area Rise Up 4 Abortions Rights coalition and the Raging Grannies Action League protested to support reproductive rights Saturday.
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Demonstrators from the Bay Area Rise Up 4 Abortions Rights coalition and the Raging Grannies Action League protested to support reproductive rights Saturday.
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Protesters walked onto the steps of Sproul Hall at noon on International Women’s Day calling for the protection of abortion rights.
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On Friday, Berkeley community members voiced concerns over President Donald Trump’s attempts to delegitimize votes in key swing states at a rally organized by Revolution Books and Refuse Fascism, a national political organization calling for Trump’s removal from office.
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The urgency of Redmonde’s words was echoed by everything each speaker had to say, their presentations centering around both the personal and broader significance behind a bookstore that also has an active political presence in Berkeley and elsewhere.
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The “No to Marxism in America 2” rally held at Civic Center Park was full of chanted slogans and loud arguments with counterprotesters, and there was more violence outside the police-monitored park.
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Revolution Books held a press conference after a confrontation with self-proclaimed “western chauvinists” who threatened to burn down the bookstore Saturday.
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Seven right-wing protesters tried and failed to enter a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution at Revolution Books, a well-known local communist bookstore, on Sunday evening.
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Several right-wing protesters attacked Revolution Books at least three times at its 2444 Durant Ave. location over the course of two days.
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At the Battle for Berkeley event Thursday night, a young woman stood up and asked speaker Sunsara Taylor, a radical leftist advocate and self-described communist, to acknowledge common ground she had come to with an opponent.
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Ann Coulter said she will no longer be speaking on campus April 27, calling it “a sad day for free speech.”
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